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et ORRIN LA TAA SAY La ALA An, 4 A bY is Se A WAT a CRN 1 iF, . # x : TRE rd 34 ny Ket £0) SSAA EY NTRS AARNE A FO RTNY WARE § Kp. % REARS TE AE A EA IRN Be AR LR EX HR ESUAEIS SR 6 Fe No BA A Joti ah OR st fk 5 Li AEN DASH Re " 1} 16 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, January 4, 1983 Sports Pacers easy winners over Swedish squad It was standing room only at the Scugog Arena for a New Years Day Exhibition match between the Port Perry Pacers and a visiting minor-Midget age squad from Alta, Sweden. With close to 1000 spec- tators looking on, the Pacers were too strong both in physical size and hockey skills as they defeated the Swedes by a score of 6-1. After spotting Alta a 1-0 lead midway through the first period, the Pacers came back with six unanswered goals as they dominated play and sent a lot of rubber at goalie Anders Jansson who had a pretty good game in the nets for Sweden. Bruno Erlandsson scored the only Alta goal on a nice slap shot from the right point. Pacer goalie Paul Kingston, who shared net duties with Paul Goreski, seemed to be screened on the play. Goal scoring for the Pacers was shared by six players; Brian Stevenson, Jeff Johnstone, Lee Wilbur, Paul Rody, Greg Warriner and Jamie Lee. Dave Kemp had three assists and Vaughn McKee had two assists and a goal post. Defenseman Ray Meisner and diminutive forward Thomas Johansson were selected outstanding players in the game for their re- spective teams. Johansson, who stands about 5 feet 4 inches with his skates on and maybe tips the scales at 100 pounds, was typical of several of the Swedish skaters who gave away height and weight to the bigger and stronger Port Perry players. There was not much heavy hitting in this game, but 13 penalties were called, seven to the Pacers and six to Alta. Following the game, Swedish team co-ordinator Hans Lindberg said the fact there was not a lot of hard hitting made the match more enjoyable for his young players (all are 15 years old) as they are not used to the heavy going and tough body checking. Prior to the match, Elmer Lee of Port Perry, a long time supporter of 'minor hockey in this community had the honour of dropping the puck in a ceremonial face-off between the team captains Jeff Johnstone and Magnus Eriksson. Players presented gifts to each other with the Pacers giving red and white PPMHA caps to the Swedish team. The. PPMHA hosted a banquet in honour of the visitors at the Latcham Centre following the game. For Alta, it was the third game of a six match exhib- ition series in southern Ont- ario. They lost 6-4_to Bow- manville Minor Midgets and 6-0 to Stirling Midgets. They will play games in Mark- ham, Port Hope and Sharon before returning home Jan- uary 8. Bowmanville Minor Hockey is hosting the Alta team on their visit to Canada. Alta, about 15 miles south of Stockholm is considered a suburb of the Swedish cap- ital. Nineteen players, five leaders and two parents made the trip to Canada, and co-ordinator Hans Lindberg said plans for this trip have been several years in the making. The total cost for travel was about $22,000, and Mr. Lindberg said players con- tributed part of the cost and the team had several money raising ventures including the sale of Christmas trees and candles. Alta plays a 35 game schedule in an eight team league and gets in about two hours of practise time each week. All of the games are on open air rinks with artificial ice, and after playing in warm arenas in Ontario, the youngsters will have some re-adjusting to do when they return home. Mr. Lindberg said the team has greatly enjoyed the visit to Canada and the fine hospitality in the com- munities where they have played their games, despite the fact the team has not had too much luck on the ice. Between games, the youngsters from Alta have been taking in some of the tourist attractions Ontario has to offer such as Niagara Falls, the CN Tower, the General Motors plant in Oshawa and the Pickering nuclear power station. On Sunday night, they visited Maple Leaf Gardens to watch Toronto defeat the Detroit Red Wings. Ray Meisner and Thomas Johansson were selected individual stars of the game for their respective teams. Note the difference in size between the two players as the Swedes have several skaters like this in their line-up. " - i I BALI A i NU ne LCVD RSI RI EAR EEN Photos, kei Petites compete in Markham tourney On Wed. December 22, the Bruton's I.D.A. Petites travelled to Oakwood to play an exhibition game against Mariposa and lost by a score of 6-3. Scoring for Port Perry were Kelly Calloway with two goals, and Denna Lovering with her first ringette goal. A beautiful goal Denna!! The girls play in their first tourna- ment of this year, during the ~ Christmas holidays in Markham. On Monday, December 27, the Bruton's I.D.A. Petites travelled to Markham to par- ticipate in the three day Sylvia Houghton Century 21 Ringette Tournamenf, In this tournament the girls faced teams from Toronto and sur- rounding Markham areas. There were two periods 1 minutes in length with a two minute stop time buzzer system which is different to what we are used to. In our first game, at the Milliken arena we played against a team from Oro Township and won by a score of 5-1. The girls were all up for this gme. pa SP story by John B. McClelland oa lun # 4 no oil Elmer Lee of Port Perry dropped the ceremonial first puck New Years Day between Swedish captain Magnus Eriksson and Pacer captain Jeff Johnstone. and played very well. Scoring i in the first period were Michelle Beare with two goals, and Kim Caudle with & one. In the second period A Michelle and Kelly were our i scorers. The girls all passed 1 quickly and well which show- 8 ed in the game. ) On Tuesday, December 28, the girls played their second : game of the tournament i against a team from Ajax, but 7 lost by a score of 84. These girls have given us a problem A before. Our girls played well 4 but were set back by "8 penalties. The girls kept dig- i ging and finally tied the game at four, but Ajax came back and took the lead again for A good. Scoring for Port were 3 Michelle Beare and Kelly of Calloway in the first period i and Jenny Blanchard and | Kelly from Nicole Slack in the @ second period. Hope you all be can keep up the work for 4 future games and tour- naments. Unfortunately, by losing this game, we are out of the championship round. ceremonies just prior to the game with Grant Men- Members of the Alta, Sweden Minor Midget age zies Pacers of Port Perry, who went on to win 6-1. team line up at the Scugog Arena for opening